Design tradeoffs for a high spectral resolution mid-infrared echelle spectrograph on the Thirty-Meter Telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6269 II, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Tokunaga, A T ^a   Bond, T ^a   Elias, J ^b   Chun, M ^a   Richter, M ^c   Liang, M ^b   Lacy, J ^d   Daggert, L ^b   ETollestrup, ^a   MRessler, ^e   Warren, D ^f   Fisher, S ^g   Carr, J ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f David Warren Optical Design Services   (United States)

^g GEMINI OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^h NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Echelle; Echelon; Imaging; Infrared; Spectroscopy; Thirty Meter Telescope

Indexed keywords

DETECTOR ARRAYS; FEASIBILITY DESIGN; MID-INFRARED ECHELLE SPECTROGRAPH (MIRES); THIRTY METER TELESCOPE;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; INFRARED SPECTROGRAPHS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; OPTICAL SENSORS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 33749321348     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.670169     Document Type: Conference Paper

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